Dictionary

override en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈəʊ.vəˌɹaɪd/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈoʊ.vɚˌɹaɪd/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.

Meanings

1. A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
   • The bill passed with 72 members voting for the override and 46 against. 2024 December 11, Arit John, “North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature erodes incoming Democrats’ political powers”, in CNN:
2. A royalty.
3. A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
4. (qualifier:object-oriented programming) A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.

Forms

Translations (5)

ta ரத்து செய்தல் (a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control) · ja 優先 (a royalty) · fi rojalti (a royalty) · ja オーバーライド (a mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control) · ja 優待 (a royalty)

override en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /əʊ.vəˈɹaɪd/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English overriden, from Old English oferrīdan, equivalent to over- + ride. Cognate with Dutch overrijden, German überreiten, Danish override.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To ride across or beyond something.
   • Around 50 people were evacuated from a rush-hour London Overground service on October 12, after an eight-car train overrode the buffers at Enfield Town station. 2021 October 20, “Network News: Commuter train crashes into buffers at Enfield Town”, in RAIL, number 942, page 8:
2. (transitive) To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
   • Separation of the caboose from the VAN train had caused the train to go into emergency braking and when Extra 3119 West struck the third rack car, the car overrode the locomotive, destroyed the remaining superstructure, and caused the locomotive to overturn the north rail. The near-instantaneous derailment of the rest of the train followed immediately. 1981 August 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “Collision and Derailment”, in Railroad Accident Report: Rear-End Collision of Union Pacific Railroad Company Freight Trains Extra 3119 West and Extra 8044 West, Near Kelso, California, November 17, 1980, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2022, page 6:
3. (transitive) To ride a horse too hard.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
   • Republicans in the North Carolina House pushed through a measure restricting the powers of the incoming governor and other Democrats, overriding outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto. […] The state Senate voted to override the governor’s veto last week. 2024 December 11, Arit John, “North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature erodes incoming Democrats’ political powers”, in CNN:
   • The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said. 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
   • The Federal Aviation Administration initially overrode its own engineers’ recommendations in 2019 to ground the Boeing 737 Max after a second fatal crash, according to a new watchdog report. 2023 April 28, Greg Wallace, “FAA headquarters initially overrode its own engineers’ 737 Max grounding recommendation”, in CNN:
   • Congress promptly overrode the president's veto, passing the bill into law.
   • The power of the stories overrides everything else. The quiet starkness of the telling: […] 2013 February 17, Bob Greene, “America’s ‘Slave Narratives’ should shock us”, in CNN:
   • In automotive design, safety should override lesser factors such as cosmetics and corner-cutting.
   • “The first time I was overridden, on the Congressional district map, I said the bill was illegal and I expected the courts would throw it out. The courts have done so,” Edwards said in his statement Tuesday. “Today, I was overridden for the second time… I expect the courts to throw out this unconstitutional bill, as well.” 2023 July 18, Jack Forrest, “Louisiana legislature overrides governor’s veto of ban on gender-affirming care for minors”, in CNN:
5. (transitive) To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
   • Manual controls allow the user to override the camera's default settings.
6. (qualifier:object-oriented programming, transitive) To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
   • How the cat runs is defined in the method run() of the class Cat, which overrides the same method with the same signature of superclass called Mammal.

Forms

Coordinates

come first · veto

Deriveds

nonoverridability · overridable · overrider · unoverridable · overridability · override one's commission · nonoverridable · nonoverridden · overrideable

Relateds

overload

Translations (44)

fi ratsastaa väsyksiin (to ride a horse too hard) · fi syrjäyttää ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · ja 酷使する (to ride a horse too hard) · cmn 重写 ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · fi ratsastaa yli (to ride across or beyond something) · vi ghi đè ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · no overstyre (to counteract the normal operation of something) · ca sobreescriure ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · fi kumota (to counteract the normal operation of something) · es anteponerse a (to counteract the normal operation of something) · de übersteuern (to counteract the normal operation of something) · fa روسواردن ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · ja 覆す (to counteract the normal operation of something) · fr redéfinir ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · nl afjakkeren (to ride a horse too hard) · el υποσκελίζω ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · ru переопределить ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · hu felülbírálni (to counteract the normal operation of something) · el επικαλύπτω ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · pt sobrepor (to counteract the normal operation of something) · it oltrepassare (to ride across or beyond something) · fr outrepasser (to ride across or beyond something) · it bypassare (to counteract the normal operation of something) · ca revocar (to counteract the normal operation of something) · it forzare (to counteract the normal operation of something) · ka დაძლევს (to counteract the normal operation of something) · tr zorlamak (to counteract the normal operation of something) · es hacer caso omiso de (to counteract the normal operation of something) · no motvirke (to counteract the normal operation of something) · fi ratsastaa poikki (to ride across or beyond something) · pt anular (to counteract the normal operation of something) · pt contornar (to counteract the normal operation of something) · pt sobrepor ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · it ridefinire ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · pl nadpisać ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · sv åsidosätta (to counteract the normal operation of something) · bg отменям (to counteract the normal operation of something) · fi ratsastaa liian kovaa (to ride a horse too hard) · fa روسواردن (to counteract the normal operation of something) · ka დაძლევა (to counteract the normal operation of something) · fr outrepasser (to counteract the normal operation of something) · de überschreiben ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · ka გადაფარვა ((software) To define a new behaviour of a method) · bg пресилвам (to ride a horse too hard)